I woke at 3:00 yesterday morning with an idea. The thought rolled around in my head making enough noise I failed to sleep again and started my day early.
“I
have an idea,” I announced to Desiree as soon she awakened and found me in the living
room. “I am hoping you can make something
for us. I guess we can call them
sunchimes. I envisioned them in my head when
I first woke this morning. I may have
seen then in my last dream…not really sure.”
Desiree,
in addition to being agreeable, is a brilliant crafter. For many years, she has made both decorative
and useful items with sinamay fabric, a material woven from the processed
stalks abaca trees, a type of banana native to the Philippines. Upon moving here with me, she also started fabricating
baubles and windchimes with fragments of tumbled glass. In my waking vision, I saw a sunchime of
tumbled glass dangling within a free-floating sinamay frame. I explained this to Desiree.
After
a quick trip to town to fetch needed supplies, Desiree produced a lovely
sunchime prototype.
“That’s
perfect,” I told Desiree when she held up her finished chime. “I love it!
I think you are going to need to make a lot more of those.”
I
have posted two photographs of Desiree’s first sunchime.
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